Running CI/CD jobs locally with GitLab Runner using Powershell on Windows

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Hi All,

I’m having problems running jobs locally with GitLab Runner using Powershell on Windows 10 Pro
in a command prompt(I run the command prompt as an administrator). I have installed Docker Toolbox (version 19.03.1) and Gitlab-runner (version:12.5.0). I have register a ‘gitlab-runner’ with docker executor and ‘gitlab-ci.yml’ file configured in the project root folder.

When I tried to execute job gitlab-runner exec docker maven-build locally after starting the gitlab-runner service I got this error below error:

ERROR: Preparation failed: error during connect: Get http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.25/info: open //./pipe/docker_engine: The
system cannot find the file specified. In the default daemon configuration on Windows, the docker client must be run elevated to connect. This error may also indicate that the docker daemon is not running. (executor_docker.go:980:0s)

These are the settings I’m running:

config.toml

concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0

[session_server]
session_timeout = 1800

[[runners]]
name = "my-runner"
url = "https://gitlab.com/"
token = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
executor = "docker"
[runners.custom_build_dir]
[runners.docker]
tls_verify = false
image = "alpine:latest"
privileged = false
disable_entrypoint_overwrite = false
oom_kill_disable = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/cache"]
shm_size = 0
[runners.cache]
[runners.cache.s3]
[runners.cache.gcs]

.gitlab-ci.yml

image: docker:latest
services:
- docker:dind

variables:
DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: gitlab-ci

stages:
- build
- package
- deploy

maven-build:
image: maven:3-jdk-8
stage: build
script: "mvn package -B"
artifacts:
paths:
- target/*.jar

docker-build:
stage: package
script:
- docker build -t registry.gitlab.com/xxxx/xxxxx .
- docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_BUILD_TOKEN registry.gitlab.com
- docker push registry.gitlab.com/xxxx/xxxxx

docker-deploy:
stage: deploy
script:
- docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_BUILD_TOKEN registry.gitlab.com
- docker pull registry.gitlab.com/xxxx/xxxxx
- docker run -itd --name test -p 9090:8080 registry.gitlab.com/xxxx/xxxxx sh

Please help.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi there,
I have same issue with shell executor, despite my config.toml, when I launch gitlab-runner exec shell build locally, cmd is using but powershell when I lauch same build from my gitlab instance.
Is there an bug ?

Thanks,